Governing Was Always Difficult For Conservatives, But

If Your Purpose Is To Understand The Clique Of People Who Dominate Washington Today, The Emails That Really Matter Are The Ones Being Slowly Released By Wikileaks From The Hacked Account Of Hillary Clinton's Campaign Chair John Podesta.

Vibrancy Is So Universally Desirable, So Totemic In Its Powers, That Even Though We Aren't Sure What The Word Means, We Know The Quality It Designates Must Be Cultivated. The Vibrant, We Believe, Is What Makes Certain Cities Flourish.

Massive Inequality, We Have Learned, Isn't The Best Way To Run An Economy After All. And When You Think About It, It's Also Profoundly Ugly.

This Aesthetic Quality, Then, Is What Politics Is All About. It's Authenticity That Separates Winners From Losers, Good Politics From Bad, And He-man Leader-types From Consultant-directed Puppet-boys.

Financial Regulation Is The Next Item On The Political Horizon, And It Doesn't Have To Be The Deathly Dull Wonk-battle That It Sounds Like. In Fact, If The Democrats Do Their Job, It Can Just As Easily Become A Platform For Addressing The Greatest Issues Of Them All.